The West Middlesex Waterworks Company (also known as The Company of Proprietors of the West Middlesex Water Works Company) was a utility company supplying water to parts of West London in England. The company was established in 1806 with works at Hammersmith and became part of the publicly owned Metropolitan Water Board in 1904.
Origins
The West Middlesex Waterworks Company was founded by serial entrepreneur Ralph Dodd in 1806 to supply water to parts of West London, including Marylebone and Paddington, in the counties of Middlesex and Surrey from the River Thames.
On 12 July 1806, the Company of Proprietors of the West Middlesex Water Works was incorporated by the West Middlesex Waterworks Act 1806 (46 Geo. 3. c. cxix).[1] The act authorised the proprietors of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company to raise £30,000, divided into shares of £100 each, with power to raise a further sum of £50,000.[1]
In 1808 the company installed cast iron pipes to supply water from its intakes at